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List of rock textures 
Summary
This page is intended to be a list of rock textural and morphological terms.
A edit
- Adcumulate
- Agglomeritic
- Adamantine a type of lustre
- Amygdaloidal
- Anhedral
- Antitaxial veins
- Aphanitic
- Aplitic; aplite
- Augen textured gneiss
- Axiolitic texture
B edit
- Botryoidal
- Brecciated
- Bedding fissile; bedding fissility
- Boudinage; boudins
C edit
- Cataclastic
- Chilled margin
- Clastic; see also breccia
- Cleaved
- Crenulated
- Cross-bedding
- Cross-stratification; also trough-cross stratification.
- Cumulate; see also layered intrusion
D edit
- Decussate
- Devitirification; devitrified
- Dendritic texture; dendrites
- Diatextite; see also schlieren and migmatite
E edit
- Embayed minerals; see igneous texture
- Equigranular
- Euhedral
- Eutaxitic
- Epiclastic
F edit
- Fiamme
- Foliation
- Fissile; see also Bedding fissility.
- Fossiliferous
G edit
H edit
I edit
- Imbricate
- Intergrowth texture
J edit
K edit
- Kelyphitic
L edit
- Lepidoblastic
- Leucocratic
- Lineation, lineated
- L-tectonite
M edit
- Melanocratic
- Mesocratic
- Mesocumulate
- Mylonitic
N edit
- Nematoblastic
O edit
- Ocelli
- Oolitic; see also limestone
- Ophitic texture
- Orbicular texture
- Orthocumulate
P edit
- Panidiomorphic
- Pegmatitic
- Peloidal
- Perthitic
- Phaneritic
- Phyllitic
- Pisolitic
- Poikilitic
- Poikiloblastic
- Porphyroclastic
- Porphyroblastic
- Porphyritic texture; see also porphyry
- Ptygmatic (folding); see migmatite
Q edit
R edit
- Rapakivi texture
S edit
- Sandy
- Schistose; schistosity
- Seriate texture
- Shear; sheared; shear fabric
- Slaty; slaty cleavage
- Specular
- Spherulite
- Spinifex texture; see also komatiite
- S-tectonite
- Stratabound
- Stratum
- Stromatolitic
- Stylolitic
- Subhedral
- Symplectite
T edit
- Tuffaceous
- Trachytic texture
